This foundry is the oldest manufacturing company in the UK and is still making bells at 32/34 Whitechapel Road. Probably their most famous creation is (we thank Alice, a member of a children's history club, for providing this excellent link). The history pages of our picture source are extensive (but, 2022, defunct).
2016: Sadly we learnt that and the building will be sold. published a good history of the foundry. !!
2021: The long - it will become a bell-themed boutique hotel.
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Whitechapel Bell Foundry
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall carried out the first ringing...
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Whitechapel Bell Foundry
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Publisher and newspaper distributor and Lord Mayor of London, 1918–19. 1st Baron Marshall of Chipstead. Born Streatham, son of Sir Horace Brooks Marshall, whose business he joined.  His daughter ma...
Chairman of the Sir Keith Park Memorial Campaign. Â Spent 3 years and millions of dollars to get the Keith Park statue erected. Â In 2011 this earned him, a Brit, the title normally given to a NZ cit...
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Banker and politician, grandson of the bank founder Sir Francis. Born Lee, near Lewisham, Kent. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1851. Died at Fontmell Lodge, Bournemouth.
Henry Forster Withy was born on 10 October 1910 in West Hartlepool, Durham, the elder son of Henry Daubeny Withy (1882-1914) and Emily Edith Withy née Wilson (1879-1932). His birth was registered i...
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